GCL3126657: HANDWRITING: QUILL PEN Engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126870: FRANCISCO PIZARRO ( c.1475-1541). Spanish conqueror of Peru. Line engraving, Spanish, 17th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126928: ZODIAC: SCORPIO, 1482 Scorpio, the scorpion. Zodiacal woodcut from Gaius Julius Hyginus' 'Poeticon Astronomicon,' Venice, Italy, 1482. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126935: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778). French philospher and writer. Etching and engraving, French, 19th century, after Alexandre Joseph Desenne. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126889: DORÉ: JESUS PREACHING Jesus Preaching to the Multitude (Luke 12:23,31). Wood engraving after Gustave Doré., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126972: GERMANY: REVOLUTION, 1848 'Storming the arsenal.' The outbreak of the Revolutioin of 1848 in Berlin, Germany. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127055: NEW YORK: PARADE, 1788 The celebration in New York City following the ratification of the Federal Constitution on 26 July 1788. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127010: LUTE, 1723 Copper engraving, 1723, by Arnold van Westerhout. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127013: CAPTURE OF QUEBEC, CANADA The capture of Quebec by the English in 1629. Color engraving from Louis Hennepin's 'New Discovery ....' 1698. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127028: NERO (37-68 A.D.) Emperor of Rome, 54-68 A.D. Emperor Nero watching gladiatorial combat through a concavely-ground emerald serving as a lens to correct his myopia. Wood engraving, French, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127029: PHILADELPHIA: LIBRARY Library Company of Philadelphia (founded by Benjamin Franklin, whose statue stands in the niche above the door) and Surgeon's Hall in Fifth Street, Philadelphia: coloured line engraving, 1799, by William Birch & Son. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127031: FOURTH ST., PHILADELPHIA New Lutheran Church in Fourth Street, Philadelphia: coloured line engraving, 1799, by William Birch & Son. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127033: ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON (1746-1813). American lawyer and politician. Color engraving, 1858. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127036: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, 1865 Illustration by Sir John Tenniel from the first edition of, 1865, of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.', Tenniel, John (1820-1914) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127040: FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1794 The attack on the Commune of Paris, 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor, Year 2). Etching, 1817. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126875: DANIEL BOONE (1734-1820) American frontiersman. Stipple engraving, American, c.1835, after Chester Harding. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126885: DORÉ: JESUS & MULTITUDE Christ Feeding the Multitude (Matthew 14:17,18). Color engraving after Gustave Doré. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126888: The Massacre of the Innocents (Matthew 2:16) (engraving), Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126945: VIOLIN, 1723 Copper engraving, 1723, by Arnold van Westerhout. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126960: FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1848 Behind a street barricade in Paris during the Revolution of 1848. Line engraving. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126890: DORÉ: GOOD SAMARITAN (Luke 10:33,34). Wood engraving after Gustave Doré., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126915: PALL MALL, 1717 A gentleman playing 'jeu de mail', also known as 'pele mele' or pall mall. Engraved frontispiece to 'Nouvelles Regles pour le Jeu de Mail' [New Rules for the Jeu de Mail} published at Paris, 1717. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126929: ZODIAC: CAPRICORN, 1482 Capricornus, the Goat. Zodiacal woodcut from Gaius Julius Hyginus' 'Poeticon Astronomicon,' Venice, Italy, 1482. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126944: IRISH GREAT POTATO FAMINE An Irish family after ejectment from their home during the Great Potato Famine of 1846-47. Contemporary color engraving. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127051: CRUSADES: 14th CENTURY The embarkation of the Chevaliers du Saint-Esprit on a Crusade. Miniature from the 'Statuts de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit de Naples,' 14th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127002: FLATBOAT, 19th CENTURY Going down a western river in the United States. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3127049: SPANISH SHIP, 1496 A typical late-15th century Spanish ship. Woodcut from 'Estoriador do emperador Vespesiano', 1496. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126498: BROOKLYN MUSEUM, c.1910 The Sargent gallery at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Photograph, c.1910. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126501: JACK JOHNSON (1878-1946) American heavyweight pugilist. Speaking at Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus in Times Square, New York City. Photograph, c.1945. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126509: WORLD WAR I: SERBIA Troops drawing water from a well into barrels, which then have to be transported over muddy roads on ox-drawn carts to supply the army with water during World War I. Photograph, c.1915. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126497: BROOKLYN MUSEUM, c.1910 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126517: ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864-1946) American photographer. Photographed in the office of his gallery in New York City, 1945., American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126519: CONEY ISLAND, c.1905 A view of Dreamland in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph, c.1905. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126534: BACH: MANUSCRIPT, 1734 Autograph manuscript page of Johann Sebastian Bach's 'In allen meinem Taten,' 1734. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126564: JAMES CAGNEY (1899-1986). American cinema-actor. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3126660: SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO & JULIET. The balcony scene (Act III, scene 5), 1880 (engraving), Gilbert, John (1817-97) / Bridgeman Images